Comments on: Canada Increases ‘Music Industry Subsidy’ on Blank CDs

By: Track 38

Track 38 — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 21:30:04 +0000

[...] Canada Increases ‘Music Industry Subsidy’ on Blank CDsThat Nirvana track you put onto a compilation CD for your drive to and from work, is another copy that you would otherwise have bought (apparently). So, that loss must be compensated. For every blank CD sold in Canada, 21¢ used to go to . [...]

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Struggling industries will try anything › Nick Gehring — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 16:21:31 +0000

[...] companies in Canada receive 29 cents — recently up from 21 cents — for every blank CD sold in the country. The Canadian copyright board levies this charge in [...]

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By: yaycakes

yaycakes — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 21:14:45 +0000

Ipods are not used for music at all and all black cds clearly are… And its only canadian music that is on them! So that means all money goes to nickleback…

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By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 07:11:17 +0000

Way to go Canada. Those record company execs need their private jets, hookers, and drugs paying for, don’t they? The fact that blank cd’s have many uses: vcd, data, etc doesn’t seem to factor into their warped sense of objectivity.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 07:04:05 +0000

If you are going to tax blank cd’s in case they are used to burn audio, then to be fair, you also need to tax dvd’s for video content, and finally, paper, just in case we might print a book. It goes on and on. It’s quite ridiculous; which is why few nations have implemented it.

By: Lonemonk

Lonemonk — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 12:48:56 +0000

Arthursucks: If you happen to be a Socan member, you might be able to appeal to them, but if you do not show up on Soundscan or whatever method they are using to calculate air-play, it translates into nothing.

If you happen to be:
1. Physically disabled (an registered as such)
2. A court or tribunal
3. A police organization
or
4. A registered religious or charitable organization

Only the above are officially exempt from the Levy.

So, I propose we start a new religion.

By: Lonemonk

Lonemonk — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 12:40:06 +0000

I notice many retail stores do not charge the levy probably because manufacturers outside of Canada are not required to charge it upfront. Places like London Drugs here in Victoria DO charge the levy and they have to have a little sign in the CDR/DVD section to explain why their prices are so much higher than elsewhere.
It doesn’t look as though future shop or any of the local computer stores bother with this extra levy.

I wrote to the minister of heritage back in 2000, but the reply was an idiotic form letter that basically said “Too bad”.

I run a recording studio, and realistically about 2 CDs of every hundred that I use might have copywrited material on it. All the rest are my own music, or new music created by my clients. The common battle cry is why the hell would I (or my customers) want Celine Dion to get any money from our efforts? (Since obviously it will mostly be the big-selling acts who get a lion-share of the proceeds)

Refuse to shop anywhere that carries this levy. Buy all your blanks on-line.

To those who were wondering about the iPods and MP3 player levies. You can expect that to happen sometime soon. It has already been seriously discussed among those who wrote this law. It will easily add a few hundred dollars to the price of such a device.

By: arthursucks

arthursucks — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 11:50:32 +0000

I’m a musician. I’m sure someone, somewhere in Canada has some of my music on it. Where the fuck is my cut?!

By: Canada aumente un 38% el canon sobre CDs vírgenes « Me quedo más ancho que la hoja de un pino

Mon, 15 Dec 2008 06:13:02 +0000

[...] siguen con la teoría del lucro cesante, porque no se les ha ocurrido mejor idea que la de aprobar un aumento de un 38% en el canon que se aplica a los CDs virgenes. Lo que no indican en la noticia, es si también se verá afectado [...]

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By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 06:08:21 +0000

Cant believe how the government lets this happen like that, thank god im not canadian nor american

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By: 8Man

8Man — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 05:16:49 +0000

This rip-off tax is certainly unfair to people who use CD’s only for data backup/archiving. Ex: The only CD-R’s I’ve ever bought have been used primarily to back up .JPG’s from my digital camera. Why should I pay tax to subsidize ‘artists’ that produce a product I would never buy?

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By: Az

Az — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 03:00:50 +0000

“ISP Levy? ARE U KIDDING?”

I’m deadly serious.

Think it through before you knock it down.

You’re a musician, you release a song to the torrent pool. Depending on how popular it is (measured by downloads) you get remunerated. If it’s really popular, you’re rich.

Or, you’re a user. You pay a small flat fee. (I’d be happy for it to be double my current ISP bill.) For that fee you get all the content you want. Anything and everything. Totally legal.

Even the arsehole corporations will have a win. The old content they own can be remunerated as well.

It would streamline the delivery of content directly from producer to consumer and deliver an income based on popularity. Not worth even thinking about?